let's start with mike barnicle and john meachem. >> also, michael steele. good to have you here, michael. and nbc chief foreign affairs correspondent, andrea mitchell. >> look at those uggs. >> i got to be outside all day. this is my only warm moment. >> i'm impressed. they look great. >> hardly fashionable. >> mika, are you excited? compare today to how you felt four years ago. >> yeah, but i think it's measured. and i think that's actually probably the tone the white house is taking at this point. there's a lot to be done. and a lot of things that have happened that i think need to be grown on or corrected, given the first four years. but it's always an exciting day to be able to be a part of witnessing history as it happens here in washington. it's an amazing day. >> john, the second term, i don't care what the counterintuitive historians and essayists say, the second term is so much more difficult than the first term. you're racing to the midterms, where after that you know you're, in effect, a lame duck. >> starting at 12:01 or thereabouts, everyone in